22-Aug-2011 – We were planning to visit N42°E44° some days before after having had a stroll through the refurbished centre of the medieval Georgian capital Mtskheta. From there, according to our guidebook, an elektrichka [suburban electric train] is running to Gori, the next city to the confluence. During waiting there, several times people appeared at the station, waited a little with us and left again without any sign of surprise, frustration or irritation. Obviously they just gave it a try, if the train will come this day at that time and when realizing it would not, just decided to come back another day… Our travel plans did not give us the opportunity to try to get to the train again and again and so after having waited for more than 2 hours without seeing any train going to any direction we with a heavy heart decided to skip the CP-visit and went back to Tbilisi by marshrutka [shuttle bus].

After our tour through whole Georgia on the way from Batumi at the Black Sea to the Armenian capital Yerevan in a night train I realized that on my map the rail tracks exactly cross N42°E44°. So a glimmer of hope arose, that the train would pass the CP within a distance of less than 100 m and I prepared everything to be able to make the necessary pictures as there still would be daylight when coming to Gori.

The housing settlement mentioned by previous visitors then could be clearly seen to the south of the tracks but the train passes N42°E44° in a distance of 250 m, so also the second try of visiting this CP unfortunately was not successful.